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Collect whole blood in a purple top (EDTA) tube (preferred). Extracted DNA is also acceptable.
5 ml whole blood or 11 ug extracted DNA
3 ml whole blood
Refrigerate sample until shipment. Send the sample at room temperature with overnight delivery for receipt Monday through Friday within 24 hours of collection.
Whole blood can be refrigerated until shipment.
Heparinized specimens, severely hemolyzed specimens, frozen, clotted or possibly commingled specimens, blood in non-sterile or leaky containers, mislabeled or inappropriately labeled specimens.
Do not heat, freeze or centrifuge blood before shipment. Refrigerate sample until shipment.
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MECP2-related disorders include: classic Rett syndrome, atypical Rett syndrome, and very mild learning disabilities in females, and neonatal encephalopathy in males and syndromic or nonsyndromic mental retardation syndromes in males. Mutations in the ARX gene lead to different nonsyndromic as well as syndromic forms of mental retardation: Partington syndrome (PRTS), X-linked infantile spasms syndrome (ISSX), X-linked lissencephaly with abnormal genitalia (XLAG), X-linked myoclonic epilepsy with spasticity and intellectual disability (XMESID), and non syndromic X-linked mental retardation (MRX). More recently, ARX mutations have been identified in several women with isolated agenesis of the corpus callosum (Proud syndrome) and in men with hydranencephaly. The spectrum of phenotypes corresponding to CDKL5-related encephalopathy includes the following: patients with some of the diagnostic criteria of Rett early onset seizure variant, patients characterized by severe encephalopathy with refractory seizures, patients with X-linked infantile spasms and finally, patients with autistic features.
Molecular Genetics:
The MECP2 (Methyl CpG Binding Protein 2) gene is located on Xq28 and contains four exons. MECP2 is a transcriptional repressor protein that is known to possess two critical functional regions, the methyl binding domain (MBD) which binds specifically to DNA at methylated CpG's, and the transcriptional repression domain (TRD) that is responsible for recruiting other proteins that mediate transcription repression. DNA methylation-dependent repression is important for X-chromosome inactivation (XCI) and genomic imprinting. More than 200 pathogenic mutations including missense, nonsense, and deletion mutations have been identified throughout the MECP2 gene. ARX is located on Xp22 and contains 5 coding exons. Mutations identified in ARX have included polyalanine repeat tract expansions, missense mutations, nonsense mutations, premature termination mutations, frameshift mutations, splice site mutations, duplication/insertion mutations, and large deletions. CDKL5 is located on Xp22 and contains 20 coding exons. CDKL5 is involved in mediating the phosphorylation of the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2). More than 30 pathogenic mutations including missense, nonsense, splice-site and small insertion and deletion mutations have been identified throughout the CDKL5 gene. Germline mosaicism and de novo mutations have been reported.
Test Methods:
We offer full gene sequencing and deletion duplication testing of all coding exons and intron/exon boundaries for MECP2, ARX and CDKL5. These tests can be ordered together as a panel or separately. PCR amplification and sequencing is performed on all coding exons including splice junctions. The patient's gene sequence is then compared to a reference sequence. Sequence variants are classified as mutations, variants of unknown significance or benign variants unrelated to disease. Variants of unknown significance may warrant further studies in the patient and other family members. Large deletions and duplications will be detected using multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification assay MLPA). Mutations in promoters, deep intronic regions and other regulatory regions will not be identified with this assay.
Detection Rate:
Point mutations have been identified in 70-80% of girls with classic Rett syndrome and 20% of girls with a variant diagnosis. MECP2 deletions are found in approximately 20-30% of girls with classic Rett syndrome and 3% of girls with atypical forms of Rett syndrome. Duplication of the MECP2 gene is detected in 17% of the cases with the specific MECP2 duplication phenotype. Mutations in the ARX gene are detected in 7-10% of cases with XLMR. Mutations in the CDKL5 gene are identified in about 10-17% of the girls affected with early onset seizures or a Rett like phenotype.
Related Tests:
Rett syndrome: MECP2 Sequencing & Deletion/Duplication Analysis Atypical Rett syndrome: CDKL5 Gene Sequencing & Deletion/Duplication Analysis Infantile Spasms: ARX Sequencing & Deletion/Duplication Analysis Congenital Variant of Rett syndrome: FOXG1 Sequencing & Deletion/Duplication Analysis Known mutation analysis is available to family members for mutations previously identified by sequence analysis or deletion/duplication analysis. Prenatal testing is available to adult females who are confirmed carriers of mutations. Please contact the laboratory director to discuss appropriate testing prior to collecting a prenatal specimen.
Test results with interpretation will be mailed and/or faxed to the referring physician or laboratory following completion of the test. Additional reports will be provided as requested.
The clinical utility of such testing is to support a clinical diagnosis of the disease, facilitate genetic counseling, assess the risk to other first degree relatives and to facilitate testing of at - risk family members.


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Everyday Vitamins for WomenEveryday Vitamins for WomenWhat to combine with good eating to meet your nutritional needsIt's a good idea for every woman to take a daily multivitamin
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For starters, it's a good idea for every woman to take a daily multivitamin to get a family of vitamins and minerals, including vitamin C (200 to 1,000 mg per day) and the B-complex vitamins. The B vitamins that are part of this complex are thiamine (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), niacin or niacinamide (vitamin B3), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), pyridoxine (vitamin B6), biotin, folic acid, and cobalamin (vitamin B12). Most multivitamins will also contain beneficial zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin E for healthy skin and immune function, and to protect against a wide variety of diseases.
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Omega-3 fatty acids are considered essential for the body's health. For women, they may protect against a wide range of conditions, including osteoporosis, heart disease, and depression. Food sources include cold-water fish, walnuts, flaxseeds, and canola oil. Common supplement forms of omega-3s are fish oil capsules (1,000 to 4,000 mg per day) and ground flaxseed (1 tablespoon [15 ml] one or two times a day). You can easily grind your own flaxseeds in a small coffee bean grinder to guarantee freshness.Freelance writer Terra Wellington makes sure she gets her omega-3s by adding ground organic flaxseed to her cereal every morning.
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It allows me to make a shake in the a.m. and just put it in my bag and go to work. Well sealed...no leaks!
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I own the 24oz metal shaker but its just to big, this 12oz is the perfect size, i'm going to order a second bottle.
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I got this bottle so I could make my after workout protein shakes. It is the perfect size! It has the measurement increments on the side of the container so you can easily make a balanced protein shake without a lot of effort.
I haven't seen any leaks or spills with this bottle. The lid and spout lid are very tight fitting. Sometimes this is a problem because I have a difficult time getting the top closed (I always close the spout lid FIRST then I put the entire lid on the bottle so I don't spill anything! That easy step can save you some aggravation!
The color is true to what is posted in the picture. Great product and I would absolutely recommend this for anyone looking to blend any powders. Works great with things like chocolate milk powder, coffee, protein mix, etc; if you are in a hurry and want your drink mixed fast, get this product!
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This is a great gadget to have. its small enough to be portable. you can use at home, work, anywhere. and it works great.
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Love this! Doesn't leak as long as you screw the cap on all the way and make sure the spout cover clicks shut completely. Wish I bought two!
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I love it. Its super easy to clean. It study, and makes perfect portion for 1 shake.
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blender doesn't blend well and if you shake it the lid pops open. BIG MESS!
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I am so happy I bought this blender bottle! It blends my protein shakes much smoother than I ever could with just a spoon. There are no more powder chunks in my shake! Clean up is very easy and there's no leaking. I was afraid it would be very noisy, but it's not bad.
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UCLA women's tennis team takes 13-1 overall record into Sunday's match at Colorado.
Bruins improve to 12-1 on the season and should ascend to No. 1 in the new rankings on Tuesday.
UCLA women's tennis team notches second victory of the season over its cross-town rival.
Bruins and Women of Troy square off for the second time this year on Friday at 3:00 p.m.
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Bruins claim the doubles point and then get three big wins in singles play.
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Two streams, two stories... How Humans Alter Floods and Streams
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
An activity/lab where students determine the changes in 100-year flood determinations for 2 streams over time.
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River Flooding and Erosion
Bill Dupre, University of Houston-University Park
Students take a real-life situation (river flooding and erosion), use real flood and map data, and make predictions and recommendations as to what to do to help alleviate the problem.
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Floods on the Minnesota River
Ben Laabs, SUNY College at Geneseo
Students download and manipulate data from historical floods on the Minnesota River (could be done for any river) and use to establish a flood hazard zone for St. Peter, Minnesota. This lab was developed by ...
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Monument Creek hydraulics project
Eric Leonard, Colorado College
This is a several-part field and computer-based project that involves students in measurement of stream-channel geometry, basic stream-hydraulics calculations, and flood-frequency analysis. Its primary strengths ...
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Analyzing your Hometown Stream using On-line USGS NWIS Data
Laurel Goodell, Princeton University
Students analyze discharge records of streams or rivers of interest to them using on-line USGS NWIS data.
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Flood Curves Lecture Tutorial
Jessica Smay, San Jose City College; Karen Kortz, Community College of Rhode Island
This Lecture Tutorial worksheet guides students through thinking about the effects humans have on infiltration, and how that effects the duration and severity of floods. It is designed to be used in groups after a brief lecture introducing surface and ground water flow into a stream.
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These five worksheets guide student preparation for in-class discussion of reading assignments from Life on the Mississippi, Cadillac Desert, and The Control of Nature.
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Floods over time: death vs. destruction
Anna Tary, Bentley University
This exercise looks at the dollar losses and deaths caused by flooding in the US, and at the causes of, and relationships between the two trends.
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The four exercises give students an opportunity to use their knowledge of graphs, algebra, and maps to solve simple geological problems.
Determining the 100-year floodplain of the Chippewa River
Bianca Pedersen, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
In this in-class activity recurrence intervals are calculated for ten flooding events on the Chippewa River near Eau Claire Wisconsin. The students use 1:24000 topographic maps to determine the extent of the ...
1993 Missouri River Flood Exercise
John Bartley, Muskegon Community College
An exercise on the effects of flooding that took place in the upper Mississippi River drainage basin in 1993, using before and after satellite images.
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STEUBENVILLE - Apex Sanitary Landfill made a "substantial" payment last week toward the roughly $394,000 it owes for unpaid tipping fees, and indicated the balance would be forthcoming this week, JB Green Team Chairman Bob Chapman said this morning.
"We had indicated we would seek collection of the delinquency through legal channels," Chapman said. "They stepped up, made a payment" and asked us to work with them.
"We feel it's in the best interests of everyone to stop the legal procedures and try to clean it up in a diplomatic way. We'll know at the end of this week, beginning of next week (if that's possible). If they don't fulfill their obligation, the board meets in December and we'll probably decide then" how to proceed.
At its last meeting, the JB Green Team had voted to ask the Jefferson County prosecutor to pursue possible criminal charges against the landfill as well as a civil lawsuit claiming breach of contract.
The Jefferson County Board of Health also issued notice of violation to Apex for non-payment of tipping fees to the health department.
"They not only had not been paying us, they had not been paying the health department," Chapman said. "We're making a good faith effort to try and clean (this) up before we have to litigate it."


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Austin >Food & Dining > Tres Amigos
1807 Slaughter Ln W, Austin, TX | Directions 7874830.173032 -97.823793
Mon. - Thu., Sun. 11am - 10pm;Fri. - Sat. 11am - 11pm
Neighborhoods: Plaza At Slaughter Creek
Bland food and bad service – Well, my first mistake was getting the Queso Especial...the texture and flavor (queso, guac and ground beef mix) was absolutely unpalatable. The enchiladas were bland...as were the sides. I think it takes talent to make beef enchiladas that bland- that's just my opinion- but in short, they were terrible.
Management is overwhelmed. When I was there the bar tender and one other server were waiting on like 10 or 15 tables a piece so service was bad. The manager lady was a bit- , well I want use profanity but she was unfriendly and I don't blame her. That place is a nightmare. I will never go back.
Build your own plate – Ever find yourself wanting to alter an item you find on the menu? No beans sub guacamole? At Tres Amigos, you can build your own plate. You get exactly what you're craving for a great price! And.....they have great coupons. I received an email for $12 off my next meal.
Best Tex-Mex Tamales! Gotta have some. – Was in the area of Slaugther lane & came upon this restaurant. I must say if you like tex-mex food, you'll love their entrees. ROCK'N RITAS & TAMALES! Go & try them, they're grrrreat!
a great austin business - good food and very comfortable atmosphere – What a fantastic locally owned family type restaurant! Great food and the service has improved dramatically... Mondays $3.25 Margaritas... can't beat that. Check out the south (hidden) location. Slaughter and Manchaca next to the thundercloud and gas station.
A friendly Mexican chain offering good food at great prices. – In Short
In addition to large dining areas and a patio, there are numerous rooms available for private functions. The restaurant gets crowded at lunch when scores of office workers drop in; dinner is usually a quieter affair. Specials are offered everyday and focus on variations of the entree, rice and beans combo. The also have egg dishes, salads and appetizers--the super sampler includes stuffed jalapenos, quesadillas and more.
Try it Now? – Other reviews are 2 years old. I never went to Tres Amigos "back in the day", but have been to two of the locations (183 and 290) this year (05) and both experiences were very good! The "buildings" are just OK, but the food is excellent, drinks tasty and moderately-priced, and the staff is very friendly. Also good for kids!
Great Neighborhood Restaurant – Tres Amigos has been around for a long time. It's "old school" but has changed a lot in the last few years. The food is great, the service is quick and friendly and you get plenty of food for the money.
Bland, flavorless food – Our experience at Tres Amigos consisted of extremely bland food in a standard strip mall atmosphere -- something you'd expect at the cafeteria at a retirement community, not a mexican restaurant. Although the service was ok, the food makes this place a no go.
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This by far is one of the best compressors on the planet in real life and in the software world. This is always in my signal chain on both vocals and drums and UA nailed it with this.
I read on the uad page that u can put the la2a after the 1176ln compr. for a really nice vocal chain...and yes....since than i dont do anything else....best setup so far....
even if this plugin is standart when purchasing the uad2 card i can say this is the sh** :-9
What can I say about this awesome plugin that doesn't being said before?, just insert it in any vocal channel and it does its magic, always in a great way.
I have also used it in classical music with great results.
Will never look back on this!
I use this at work to smooth out speech on video interviews - it's such a lifesaver for that. Acts transparently (you don't get obvious pumping effects at moderate reduction levels) but still with a classy sounding body to the result.
Obviously couldn't be any easier to apply, just adjust Peak Reduction to taste, and the compressor acts program-independently so you can rein-in huge chunks of audio without a need to automate changes to not overcook any part of it. Set and forget!
Perhaps that makes me sound lazy, but with lots to get done in a day - it's a workhorse.
A very subtle compressor when compared to the 1176 in my opinion. Two knobs and a couple of switches, how much more minimalist can you get. Truly analog sound qualities. I Love this and all the UA plugins I own, I dont think im ever going to use a cracked plugin again.
The LA-2A is the most simple yet effective way of leveling vocals I have ever encountered! I use this daily.
The LA2A is a legendary compressor/limiter with a very warm sound, and is absolutely fantastic for acoustic guitars, pianos and vocals or anything else where you want to warm up and fatten up the sound. Two knobs are all that's between you and deep, warm, gooey audio bliss.
I gotta be careful with this one.
Did you hear that rumor about that guy who hates La2a's? Well here i am!
Yes it's true, i have always hated this piece of equipment, it's a horrible little box in my opinion.
As always though there is a however.
After hearing a shootout between this and the real one i can honestly say i hate this plugin just as much!
Which is a testement to UA for recreating it so "beautifully"
Jokes aside if you want the features of a La2a then this plug fills those boots almost to perfection.
100% recommended :P
Am I first...? Well, the LA2 sounds fat. Use it mainly for drums and bass, and its a joy to use it every time.
Normally with computerized compressors they sounds bad when they working hard. But this is no the case with LA2 - it sounds good even when it is working hard. Behaves like a good hardware compressor.
This is my favourite compressor.
This plugin comes free when you buy your duo and yeah it sounds okay I wasn't super impressed but then again I don't have much experience with it either I'm pretty new to LA2A style but I opened UA's new updated version and they blow these older ones out of the water. I don't really see myself using this plugin since I own a LA-610 and I compress on the way in and save my plugin resources so I can use Studer, EMT 140, act but seriously these new LA2A are absolutely amazing! Buy those.
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What can i say ? it's an LA2A modeled to perfection ! Works everytime on almost everything. Hit it harder for great color !
My only suggestion to the UA development team is :
I'm one of these guys who build it's own equipment, including a dual LA2A clone.
I put the "limiter response" control on the front panel of my DIY unit and let me tell you, this is something that really opens up new worlds on terms of versatility for an LA2A. It would be genius if you guys add this "feature" to the plugin. Really. This would transform the UAD LA2A into an amazing multitask beast, while making it 100% true to it's analog brother. Until that, my veredict is 4 stars.
Thanks for reading !
i do update now an ill see /its not in the list of uad plug-ins
Teletronix LA-2A Classic Leveling Amplifier The quality is good though it is a free plug-in that can be used from the beginning.
Purchased about 3 weeks ago, great simulation, very close to la3a but still a warm sound !
I really love this compressor.my favourite on acoustic guitar and vocals. Smoothes out the mix without sounding overcompressed.
The LA-2A is an absolute must for my vocal sound! I can't get enough of it! I like to put the 1176 before it just so this compressor doesn't get pushed too hard. You will love what this does to your mix. Trust the reviews!
Back in the days of great Recording facilities,This hardware was the main Limiter -compressor that stood out in every recording studio on the east cost.The sound was so good,I never questioned it.But that was then.Here we are different times new technologies that have made it possible for us to kind of reproduce the same emulations without the hardware factor and with more mobility.The sound is still unbelievable,the plug-in version still does a great job of producing great quality mixes and mastering.This is a Must Have for every Project studio.
This compressor is really nice and easy to apply on. I am mostly working with vocals and that seems to be its sweetspot. Turn up the gain and play around with the Peak reduction and you get a nice steady voice with a nice little flavor a rally like
Really solid emulation of a tried and true piece of analog gear. I like the way it sounds and it's easy to use.


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Today on Martha's blog, she explained that Betsy doesn't like to let her cats outside because of the birds of prey flying around the farm. You know, she has a point because look what this owl did to our pal, the squirrel. Good thing we Frenchies are too big for these predators.
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Good Morning F & S
It looks like Betsy brought two new toys for you to chase at the farm, better than those skunks. That owl looks mean - too bad he can't catch a skunk.
Mom worries about me sometimes when the hawks start to circle the property. I'm 18 pounds but some of those guys are pretty big. Mom says I'd make a nice dinner
I had a nice weekend lounging by the pool watching the kids swim. It got hot in New Jersey this weekend. Mom got out my squirt bottle and filled it with nice cold water. It feels nice when she mists my face so I stay cool. I wish I could swim it looks so fun. I live with 3 Labs, they don't swim either. Mom says she has the only Labs in the world that don't like water.
Stay cool.
Hi Frannie!
So that's a 'short-eared owl', huh? I guess what it lost in the way of ear development it made up for in the "round-eye" department!
Eyes as big as Frisbees!...That's how my eyes look when I look at you!...Yes, I'm still flirting. I'd like to catch *you* in mid-air!
Mom won't let me outside by myself (even in the backyard) because I only weigh 7 pounds and I could be a target for a bird of prey. I keep telling her I'm tough and I'd scare a bird of prey away, but she won't listen (she's an old fart sometimes). I don't really mind, because she takes good care of me and gives me great food. I'm interested in owl houses, though. Mom has heard of people having screech owl boxes (houses) but doesn't know much about them. She thinks it'd be fun to have owls in the yard, though! Bye.
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Kirby here. Those owl's look dangerous to me. There are some birds of prey around where I live in Georgia. I don't worry abut them because I am so big. They wouldn't dare take on a 58 pound Chow Chow. Some of the neighbors loose cats at times. I don't know why their owners let them roam loose when they can hear the owls at night, but they do. There are so many squirrels around here to chase away from the bird feeders for mom. I wish that the owls hunted a little more during the day so the squirrel population would be a little less. Got to run now; there's a squirrel in one of the feeders now.
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Hi everybody: I was really sad when mom told me about the owl eating that poor squirrel. But mom said it the natural course of things, whatever that means. It sure was warm in North Carolina this weekend. My dad took me on lots of long walks and I had a couple of sun baths in the doorway. Mom said she had to do house cleaning. I never saw an owl before and mom said they are very beautiful. She said everything in nature is beautiful. I guess that means me too! Well, it is time for me to have a snack. See ya later, love Gracyn.
Oh man, Francesca, that's a wild pic! I totally wasn't thinkin' that when I kept saying I was trying to pick you up...YIKES!
The owls are so cool! I just love them. Good thing I'm a big retriever, some of my small dog friends have be watch out for the hawks & vulchers seen occasionally around in fields nearby.
Please do get any ideas, Francesca. Don't mess with an owl!
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Mrrrowmrrrowmrrrow. Oh, mommie thinks this is just wonderful! She takes care of God's cweatures in our own backyard. We have jennywren houses...she always makes sure there's pwenty of water for the birds to dwink and to cool off in on hot days. She doesn't even mind when the bees sit on the edge of the birdbaths and sip. She just has a special way about her and God's gifts in nature. Mrrrow. We had a gweat-horned owl a couple weeks ago that kept calling and calling...it was pwetty neat, but mrrrow, was I ever gwad I was inside! I know they eat meeces 'n' you never know when they might twy to pick me up and carry me away! Prrrr. =^..^=
Mrrrow. Mommie's not pweased that the sqwirrel got eaten. Much as I'd wike to get 'em myself, it's awful, basically... Mommie was pweased about the nesting boxes. That's all... Prrr. =^..^=
oh man, that poor squirrel! but hey, the owl has to eat right? my mommie is afraid the Red Tail Hawks and some of the big Owl's here will get me, cause I'm somwhat a small Gato...actually a feral kitty and bring home those other small critters to share with mom...trust me she is not happy about that...
my moms up in anchorage right now babysitting her grandkids, I haven't met them yet, but get to spend over a month with them when she brings them home when school is out up there, but she tells me, that there are lots of dangers for pets like us up there, what with the bears and eagles, I'll stay here at home with my dad thanks that sounds to scary for me, a bear.
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Hi Girl Friends, Boy, that owl sure does look mean, especially since he's eating that squirrel.I haven't seen any owls, but mom points out big bald eagles flying over our house lots of times. I would be scared if a big bird came flying at me and would run to my mom for safety. She always protects me. You two be careful now and remember: no more skunks! Love, Dudley Do Right xoxo
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For one thing, PEJ is one of the seven "fact tanks" that make up the Pew Research Center, a veritable squad of Sgt. Fridays headquartered in Washington, D.C. For another, Rosenstiel, 53, is a former journalist, with a 10-year stint as media reporter for the Los Angeles Times and congressional correspondent for Newsweek before being recruited to create what became PEJ in 1997."If you asked me 'What is PEJ?' I would say that, at its heart, we are journalists using academic-level research, but with a completely journalistic, independent sensibility," says Rosenstiel. "We are not testing our own theories. We are trying to describe the landscape. We don't have a hypothesis we are trying to prove. We are trying to figure out what is going on out there and why."As a journalist with nearly 40 years in the business, it is an approach I can appreciate. It was the kind of reporting I did when I was working at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where I spent most of my career. When I arrived in 1976, the paper was headed into a golden age: expansion of staff and mission, creation of national and foreign bureaus, the winning of a skein of Pulitzer Prizes. Looking back, it seems like not just a former period, but an ancient era. When it comes to the print news media, PEJ has ended up chronicling a decade of traumatic change.A friend once described sociology as "slow journalism." If that is true, then what PEJ practices is warp-speed political-science research. Minus the hypotheses, of course.A good example is its content analysis of what topics are getting the most play in the news. It is compiled weekly by a PEJ staff that monitors 48 news sources, including newspapers, cable TV, network news, online sources, radio and political talk shows. The index debuted on the PEJ Web site in January 2007 and has quickly become an oft-quoted and frequently cited source of data about the news media.Is the economic crisis really filling more of the news hole than any other story? (Yes—from Obama's inauguration to the end of March, 43 percent, not including related stories such as the U.S. auto industry or the president's February 24 speech to Congress.) How are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan faring in the competition for coverage?PEJ's weekly news coverage index is the place to find the answers.A question about Iraq coverage a year ago led to an analysis of that topic—and also showed PEJ's objectivity. Prompted by a quer y from a reporter, PEJ assessed the volume of Iraq stories in the media and was able to trace a sharp drop: from 25 percent of the news hole in January 2007 to 5 percent as of March 2008.Once the facts about Iraq coverage were out in public, PEJ retired from the field and let others fight over what they meant.Rosenstiel says: "We got, through our e-mail, people saying, 'Don't you see this is perfect proof of liberal bias? Once things start to get better in Iraq, the media stop covering it.' Other e-mails said, 'This shows that things are so tough in the corporate media that they are closing their bureaus.'" He adds, "It is one of those things that are a kind of Rorschach test."The material is sliced sectionally as well, using charts that list the top ten stories for each media sector.PEJ keeps adding to the roster. After news coverage began in 2007, it started an index of talk-show material, or "opinion programming," which continues. In 2008, it followed stories about the presidential campaign. And this January, it began to track content on new media—more than 100 million blogs and other Web-based social media.The weekly reports are accompanied by a terse, written summary of the coverage trends for the week.Not so for PEJ's other main product, its annual report, titled State of the News Media. The 2009 edition runs more than 180,000 words—but, as PEJ notes, readers are expected to visit areas of interest rather than download the full text of approximately 700 pages.Subtitled an Annual Report on American Journalism, the document provides detailed information on every aspect of the news media: online and newspapers, network and cable TV, radio and magazines. It has become the central storehouse of information about the news media, and the media reporters I contacted said they found it invaluable. They also universally had praise for PEJ's and Rosenstiel's no-spin, just-the-facts approach to media issues.The Society of Professional Journalists likes it as well, recognizing Rosenstiel and the entire PEJ staff with its Sigma Delta Chi Award for its debut issue in 2004 ("it should be sent to every news outlet in the nation," said the judges).As James Rainey, who covers the news media for the Los Angeles Times (and, by the way, the direct-talking observer of the bloviation quoted earlier), puts it: "When you write about the media, you are being saturated by drivel from every direction. In this opinion-heavy, fact-averse era that we live in, what PEJ has managed to do is introduce real information—statistics, research, analysis—to tell the important story of what is happening in American media."The 2009 media report is PEJ's sixth edition. Reading the summaries in one sitting, I experienced the vertiginous feeling you can get riding on a roller coaster. So rapid and seismic are the changes in the media landscape, you do not know what the next rise in the tracks will bring—or whether there will be tracks.The opening line last year set this tone: "The state of the American news media in 2008 is more troubled than a year ago."
In 2009, the opening line is: "Some of the numbers are chilling." The next sentences give some of those disturbing facts: newspaper ad revenues down 23 percent in two years; one of every five journalists working for newspapers in 2001 gone; revenue declines in local and network TV shows—even in an election year.
The opening section concludes: "This is the sixth edition of our annual report on the State of the News Media in the United States. "It is also the bleakest."When PEJ opened its doors in 1997, no one could have predicted the changes to come. In retrospect, "it is really incredible to think about it," says Amy S. Mitchell, PEJ's deputy director. She recalls that when she came to PEJ, it was the first time she was exposed to "this very cool thing they had called e-mail."
"It was," she says, "a very different period of time."
It was before Twitter (begun in 2006), YouTube ('05), Facebook and Flickr ('04), MySpace ('03), Wikipedia ('01), the first blogging software (1999) and Google ('98). Amazon and eBay were small, two-year-old start-ups. And Craig Newmark was in his San Francisco apartment experimenting with an idea he had of offering free classified ads on the Web. He later decided to call it Craigslist.In other words, it was before the Web revolution. It was when network television and newspapers were called, simply, the news media. Now, they are referred to in PEJ reports and elsewhere—kindly, euphemistically— as the "legacy media."Rosenstiel was like someone who signed up to chronicle the staid world of 18th-century French politics six months before the storming of the Bastille."It is amazing not only how rapidly things have changed, but how rapidly the story line has shifted," he says.In 1997, journalists were worrying about infotainment and sensationalism and the "tabloidization" of the traditional media. The erosion of the values of American journalism led Rosenstiel and PEJ senior counselor Bill Kovach to write The Elements of Journalism, a book that restates those core values and also outlines how journalism should be practiced. (See the sidebar below.)Today, the story line is simpler but, for the traditional news media, grimmer. Simply put, the questions PEJ is exploring in its annual reports deal with survival. Can newspapers survive the continuing, and quickening, erosion of their advertising base? How long can network TV news survive its long decline in viewership? Is local TV news, which has cheapened its product over the years, headed for a fall in audience?Are these media, which were once the central sources of America's news and information, on the verge of becoming irrelevant: unwatched, unread and unprofitable?"The next generation of viewers doesn't watch TV, so that business is in for a change," Rosenstiel notes. "They don't read newspapers. But they do go on the Internet, and they use the cell phone, the universal device."I've lived through the period Rosenstiel has chronicled as a newspaper reporter and columnist. As I recall it, it was about 1997 that management at the Inquirer became aware of the Internet as a competitor. At the time, it was fearful that new Web sites would "steal" the newspaper's talent by hiring name reporters and columnists to do freelance pieces. (It turned out, the sites didn't. They got the content for free by linking to it from their own Web sites.)Back then, managers became fearful the Web would take their display ads. They realized (too late) the threat from Craigslist and other free classified sites. As I tell Rosenstiel, the leadership of the paper was like a man who smelled smoke in his house and ran from room to room trying to figure out the source of it. Eventually, he realized the whole house was on fire.To preserve their profit margin, the owners of the paper began a period of staff and expense contraction, which continues to this day. Between 2000 and 2008, the editorial staff of the paper was cut in half. Profits continued to fall, and this February the Inquirer filed for bankruptcy protection.In an interview in his Washington office, I ask Rosenstiel to peer ahead even more and speculate on what the state of the news media will be in 2014. He is a good sport about it, though he prefaces his analysis by saying: "I am about to make a fool of myself."The trends Rosenstiel discusses have been evident for years, but the rate of change is accelerating.For network TV, he says: "I think it is quite possible we won't have three networks with full news divisions, including offering a nightly newscast, unless they are connected in some way to a cable channel. . . . They may offer some shows, particularly in the morning, but not attempt to have full news divisions."The great weakness of network TV is that it is tied to a broadcast that is on when fewer people are at home. It is increasingly unsuited to the way we live. The weakness of cable is, because the channels have so much time to fill, they have less time to check things out and produce polished pieces of journalism," he says. "Eventually, it is not clear whether there will be six channels [doing news]. The economics are that they may not support that many."For local TV news, Rosenstiel wonders out loud if it is a "ticking time bomb."Local TV news is a sad story because it is quite lucrative, but it is lucrative because they have actually cheapened the product. There is more weather, but there are fewer reporters in the newsroom." He offers a plausible, everyday scenario: "The No. 1 reason to watch local TV news is the weather. Well, now: If you are about to go out the door, you can get the weather on the Web in 15 seconds."For newspapers, he continues, not all are faring equally. Newspapers that are national brands—The New York Times, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal come to mind—are more likely to be winners as their audiences expand via the Internet, but it is also not clear whether the market will support three of them and if it will support them at their current scale.The smallest papers are likely to continue on because of their highly localized content and the fact that the Web is not currently an option for most of their advertisers.The problem is with the many newspapers in between, especially the large metropolitan dailies, such as my former paper, the Inquirer. Some have been spared the deep cuts they made there, but my friends in the business know their turn will come. I tell them: We may be in different chapters, but we are all in the same book."I can easily see newspaper organizations dying out in certain towns," Rosenstiel says. "What is suffering most is the big city metro. I would say, projecting out five years, that you may see big-city newspapers really shriveling up and becoming not newspapers as we have come to think of them."The problem for these news organizations is not dwindling readership. When you count the online audience for newspaper Web sites, readership of these publications has increased. The problem is the economics.How do you sustain your news product—in print and online—when traditional sources of advertising revenue are drying up and there is a growing realization that online ad dollars will never bring in enough to fill the gap? "Half your audience may be online, but only 10 percent of your revenue comes from online," Rosenstiel points out.To a degree, this is the creative destruction of capitalism at work. So why be concerned if the legacy media crumble as the money and audiences migrate to the Web?The answer lies in the nature of American journalism. Newspapers are the plankton of the news chain. Every other creature in the media ocean feeds off them. If newspapers continue to shrink or if they begin to disappear, who will provide the information we need to make decisions as citizens, to vote, even to blog?Which leads to one bias that PEJ does have. Rosenstiel and Kovach are biased in favor of American-style journalism—the independent, nonpartisan pursuit of facts— as practiced at most papers. If the supply continues to diminish, they wonder, what will take its place? Will we get our "news" from business interests, government or advocates of one stripe or another?"The old complaint about the press was that journalists wanted to control it, and once control was broken, what role would there be for journalists?" says Rosenstiel. "Well, it turns out control was broken, and the journalists do not own the news anymore. But we still do need them to cover it. The news is not the only source, but in an interesting way, it remains the first source. All of the other things that are happening cannot happen without journalism. And the fundamental question is: How is that going to be sustained?"Rosenstiel and Kovach both believe that the press has time to find an economic solution—but not that much time. Kovach has devoted 50 years to the business, including service as chief of The New York Times Washington bureau, editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, curator of the Nieman Fellowships at Harvard University and founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, a group of more than 9,000 journalists worldwide. He has the darker view: "If we don't find a mechanism to keep these principles and values alive for the next five to 10 years, I think it is certainly possible and maybe probable that what we know as public-service journalism will be dead. 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1937: Born in Hastings, Neb., to Charles and Erma Osborne.
1955: Named World-Herald athlete of the year after starring in three sports at Hastings High School.
1959: Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers from Hastings College, which he chose after turning down a scholarship from Nebraska.
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1978: Finally beats Oklahoma in his sixth try, 17-14, at a rocking Memorial Stadium. The Huskers lose to Missouri the following week, however, and the disappointed Osborne explores the job at Colorado. He decides to stay in Lincoln.
1983: Assembles his greatest team to that point, featuring the "Scoring Explosion" of Turner Gill, Mike Rozier and Irving Fryar. The No. 1 Huskers lose to Miami 31-30 in the Orange Bowl when Osborne's call for a two-point conversion fails.
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1995: Leads another undefeated season marred by the arrest of star back Lawrence Phillips and the media scrutiny that follows. NU pummels Steve Spurrier's Florida team 62-24 in the Fiesta Bowl to claim Osborne's second national title.
1997: Announces retirement from coaching in December following another undefeated regular season. His inspired team blasts Tennessee in the Orange Bowl and gains a split of the national championship with undefeated Michigan.
2000: Wins election to the U.S. House from Nebraska's 3rd District and serves three terms. He loses a bid for governor in 2006, ending his career in politics.
2007: Becomes Nebraska's interim athletic director after the firing of Steve Pederson. Chancellor Harvey Perlman removes "interim" from his title two months later.
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Across the state we are seeing teacher morale issues because of increased budget cuts. One of the scenarios being tossed around is determining how much money would be saved if a non instructional position was "in charge" of the school media center instead of instructional. I know that there are many districts that split their media/tech folks between two schools. Although faced with numerous challenges, the talented and dedicated educators found ways to be productive and make it work. How many districts have no media support, or reduced services? Are the media/tech positions in your school in jeopardy? Is your school fully staffed or have you seen a decrease in all of the support categories?
These are very precarious times for Library Media Specialists! Especially if you are being split into multiple directions to teach in the classroom and/or take on the additional responsibilities given to us by administrators who are not able or not willing to give us the support staff and/or funding/resources to get the ginormous job of being a Library Media Specialist with so many additional hats to wear.
I for one am one of those over-worked, under-appreciated, over-whelmed, under-staffed, really under-funded and highly-frustrated Library Media Specialists who wants to more with less but simply cannot. The students are truly the punished in this climate. My school is now a K-8 school with two physical campuses blocks apart from each other. That means two libraries but still only ONE professional to staff it. No staff, no clerks, very little volunteers to assist. My principal jokes that she needs a "zipline" to help her go back and forth between the two campuses of our school. I remind her all the time that she better save room on that "zipline" for me since that is EXACTLY what I do in order to serve our students. Administrators often forget the work we do IS important and can be dramatically affected by all of these obstacles and road blocks.
On top of all of this, we have the current economic crisis, which has impacted many of us, myself included. After two years, my husband finally found a job. He makes less than teachers do, but he is happy and I am over-the-top happy that he is employed again. The personal burdens we experience also impact our professional lives at our schools and with the work we do with our students.
I am very grateful to still be employed and teaching at a school community that I love. Not everyone is so lucky. Miami-Dade County has seen many Library Media Specialists tearfully leave their libraries as they are reassigned to a classroom position while that library is locked up with no access for students, let alone with any information literacy instruction. Why does this happen to the most valuable and most treasured learning environment in any school? Beats me.
What to do? Get involved with your local union. I am. Seek and demand support in that avenue to get the respect you deserve. Contact your local and state elected officials. I do. Make them aware of the challenges you face in the trenches of education. Be vocal in these forums like Thinkfinity and Edmodo where teachers can have discussions and voice their concerns and commiserate with one another.
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Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. You are so right about being active and involved, sharing with colleagues and yes, at times the need to commiserate.
Our union in Pasco County is very involved in trying to convey the importance of these positions. Getting involved is huge! Speaking out to our legislators about the pathetic state funding is also important. They need to know that we want the funding reprioritized.
Having been one of the positions that was split, Jeanne, I know you are aware that Pasco County, Fl has split the Media and Technology Specialists between two school at the elementary level. I am not sure if or how the middle and high schools are split.
Now, there are rumors that Pasco may be in for more change... for the worse. The current split has meant that media & technology specialists have double the work to do in half the time. The school, teachers, and students suffer because by the time the emergencies and duties are taken care of, there is not much time left to work with students or teachers.
I realize that I am preaching the choir, but SERIOUSLY???? The standards for student learning and assessment using technology have steadily increased. The expectations for teacher proficiency with technology has also increased steadily. There is a push for depth of knowledge, content focus, and Common Core Standards. The allocations for media and technology need to be increased, not reduced.
Is anyone listening?
Thank you, Patti, for your input. This is a real concern for many.
Well, today we got the very sad news that ALL Media Specialists in Pasco County will be cut for next school year. They will attempt to place us back into classrooms based on a second certification area. I came to Pasco County School District because of its reputation for a renowned Media/Technology program. I knew it was in trouble when positions got split two years ago...should have begun looking around at that time. I am more sad about the elimination of our programs than my own loss of a position!
Supposedly, our District Executives looked at other counties in our state...what other counties have eliminated their Media Specialist programs and turned it over to assistants?
There is so much research that shows how test scores are positively affected when there are school librarians/media specialists. I believe our SOS looked at other states, not necessarily just neighboring counties in the state. Last year, several states reported that media positions were being slashed. Some of the reports that are being referenced are dated, (The Impact of School Library Media Centers on Academic Achievement | American Association of School Librarians (AASL)), but the information presented is still true today.
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I can't speak for my district but I can for my school. And, yes, this year our Media Center is staffed with a para-professional and no other staff (some student aides). The result, the Media Center is not open before or after school and closed down for a portion of the school day for the staff member's lunch. This also impacts my lab (classroom) since a number of students come to me to do research, work on projects, or print since the Media Center is not always available. I have trouble saying no!
I know the previous Media Specialist asked to be placed back in the classroom, full-time, because she was being pulled in too many directions including teaching an AP Art History class. I do not know if there were no other media specialists available or if placing the para was a district requirement or if it was just a cost-saving measure on our school's part.
Thank you, Bev. For the 2011-2012 school year, in Pasco County, elementary techs and media specialists were split between two elementary schools. Secondary schools lost their media/tech assistants. The situation continues today. However, the short fall of funding for the 2013-2014 school year has rumors flying. Our literacy coach is now split between two schools as well. I have more than one concern., but one I shall voice here is the workload placed on these individuals is unrealistic. Every school expects the same from the employee as if it was their only position.


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Maddie begins by looking for clues in Richard's office and condo (where she reduces the dozen increasingly pathetic messages she had left on his machine down to a respectable single message.) She knows something fishy is up because, at both locations, she runs into the mystery man who was talking to Richard just before he went on the lam – the mystery man with the dark hair and eyes, and the kind of hard look associated with prison. Since Richard didn't do criminal law, who was this guy? "Nobody," said Richard (who hasn't been seen or heard from since.) Mr. Nobody is clearly hunting Richard as well, as Maddie unfortunately learns. And he's not Mr. Anything; he's Detective Jack Ramirez, LAPD. Fashion Note: Jack frequently appears in form fitting, worn jeans and a fitted t-shirt, with blazer and gun accessories optional.
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Fashion notes are important here, as fashion is quite important to Maddie. I frequently find that type of detail more annoying than interesting, but here it is not presented as part of the background; it is the foreground. Fashion is central to Maddie's life. The shoes alone could constitute a character of their own, as could the L.A. freeway system. Rare is the book in which the highway system, parking and traffic figure so importantly in the story. Cruising down the 405, merging onto the 10, frequently being early or late or unable to get where she was going due to traffic on the interstate – you would think that would be annoying as well, but it turns out to be absolutely pitch-perfect for L.A.
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One final note – and this did get on my very last nerve – I grew more and more frustrated at Maddie for staying in the hunt for Richard's sake, even as it became increasing evident that he was not worthy of the effort. Really, possible impregnation by this snarky lawyer/felon/boyfriend is just not a compelling motivation.
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